Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

Photo caption: Workers perform milking operations at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. Photo credit: Ed Young / Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Article by Georgina Gustin. Inside Climate News – December 9, 2024. Research article: Science.

A handful of dairy farms sprawl across the valley floor, ringed by the spikey, copper-colored San Jacinto mountains. This is the very edge of California’s dairy country—and so far, the cows here are safe. But everyone worries that the potentially lethal bird flu is on the way. “I hope not,” says Clemente Jimenez, as he fixes a hose at Pastime Lakes, a 1,500-head […]

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